Join us for a poetry reading featuring Kai Ihns, author of Of (The Elephants, 2024), and Sara Larsen, author of Detonated Mirror (The Elephants, 2023).

Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago. She’s the author of a number of pamphlets, a dissertation called Aspect Choreography, and two books of poems, most recently Of (The Elephants, 2024). She works as an editor, and also curates for The Year, a chapbook press, and WIHSH projects, a visual arts space.

Sara Larsen is a poet and writer. Her latest book, Detonated Mirror, was released by The Elephants in September 2023. Her three previous books are The Riot Grrrl Thing (Roof Books), Merry Hell (Atelos Press), and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous (Printing Press). She is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Starved Crew (Eyelet Press). Poems have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Castle Grayskull, Elderly, NEW: The Journal of American Poetry, and Nouvelle poésie des États-Unis : Nioques, as well as others.

Poetry Reading: Kai Ihns and Sara Larsen